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Peter Corne is head of law firm Dorsey & Whitney’s Shanghai office and co-head of Dorsey’s Cleantech Business Group. He is a panelist in several Chinese arbitration and commercial mediation commissions. He conducted as presiding arbitrator the first arbitration between foreign companies in the Shanghai FTZ under SHIAC’s then revolutionary new rules and similarly as mediator conducted the first mediation in the FTZ between foreign companies in the FTZ Court. He is also Adjunct Professor at NYU Shanghai teaching International Mediation and Arbitration.

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Over 7 years working in Pinghu Economic-Technological Development Zone, Anni CHU is mainly responsible for governmental foreign investment promotion work. During the working period, Anni served and settled projects like Fortune Global 500 company thyssenkrupp; Autoneum automotive and Liebherr HVAC System from Switzerland; Wacker Neuson excavator and Desch machinery from Germany etc. over ten manufacturing projects, with the total investment of over 150 million USD. The projects investment pattern includes Greenfield, Build to Suit and Rent. Anni is expertise in foreign direct investment, land and workshop acquisition, company register, company relocation and other new plant establishment solutions.

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Mr. Chen graduated from Tongji university as major Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Automation, he has around 20 year working experience in Automotive industry. He founded chargedot in 2009 and developed it to top ranking charging solution provider in China, he developed cutting-edge Electric Vehicle Charging product portfolio, China First Smart AC Home Charger, Smart DC Charger and Cloud-based Charging Operation Management System. Won business from top OEMs, such as SAIC, Geely, BYD, VW, Toyota and NISSAN, ranked Top 2 in market share.Chargedot acquired by ABB in 2020.

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Juan Ignacio first came to China in 2003 to open a government commercial office in Shanghai to support Spanish companies doing business in China. He entered the private sector in 2007 to set up the first greenfield manufacturing plant in China for the Spanish multi-national automotive engineering company, Gestamp. In 2009, Juan Ignacio relocated to Beijing to become Managing Director for the Spanish wind engineering company, Gamesa (now Siemens-Gamesa). During his time in Beijing, Juan Ignacio became involved with the European Union Chamber of Commerce and led the sub-working group for Renewable Energy companies. He was later elected vice-president of the Executive Committee of the European Chamber (in Beijing). In 2013, Juan Ignacio was asked to return to Spain to take the appointment of Vice-minister of Industry and Energy for his native Basque region. There, he was responsible for the formation and execution of the industrial, energy and international policy of the government.

Juan Ignacio is now back in Shanghai where he is currently vice president and member of the board of Iraeta Energy Equipment company, a Spanish-multinational with a China JV manufacturing energy equipment mainly servicing the wind power sector.

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Dave Clarenbach is a systems design engineering advisor for the automotive and clean energy sector. In addition, he is involved in the development of EV range-extenders. He has 25 years of professional experience, leading large multi-disciplinary design teams in Aerospace and energy sector in Europe, United States and Asia. Using applied systems thinking and common-sense systems engineering, he has been design integration authority ranging from R&D projects in small organizations up to NPI programs in large multi-nationals.